Abstract:Because of its light weight and thin section, the steel plate composite continuous beam bridge has the risk of overall instability and local buckling influenced by the external loads during construction, which affects the safety of bridge construction. Based on the 60 m span of the steel plate composite girder bridge for the parametric analysis in the Ministry of Communications, the overall stability and local stability in its construction stage are studied. The stability variation laws under the different spans, height span ratios and beam spacing are compared and analyzed. The results show that with the increase of the segment span, the stability coefficient of the steel beam decreases. The stability decreases by about 40% for every 5 m of the increase of the span, and it is in the critical state of the specification limit value when the span is 40 m. Under the same span, the stability of the steel beam decreases with the increase of the beam height. When the beam height exceeds 3.5 m, the stability coefficient of the 40 m-span single beam is lower than the critical limit of the specification, and the structural stability is poor. When the beam spacing is more than 10 m, shortening the beam spacing can improve the structural stability, while changing the beam spacing when the spacing is less than 10 m has little effect on the structural stability.